The Daily Show: Trevor Noah On the Changes He's Bringing

New Daily Show host Trevor Noah took the stage at the Television Critics Association Press Tour for a Q&A panel regarding the upcoming sea change to the Comedy Central late night series.

"The way you approach a story, the way you look at a story depends on your points of view," the comedian stated. "The way you look at comedy depends on your points of view. So Jon [Stewart] is a white 52-year-old Jewish guy that grew up in Jersey. I am a 31 year old half-black, half-white South African who has lived in America for a few years on and off. So the way we would look at the same story would be completely different," Noah said of his Daily Show hosting duties, which kick off on September 28th.

"The way we would tackle an issue would be completely different because we’d have different access to certain jokes," Noah continued, "to certain sides of a story that you wouldn’t have necessarily. Certain sensitivities, all things that you feel are close to you that you may be able to access that you wouldn’t have were you not that."

"If you look at the issues in America right now, let’s say just around racial inequality, Jon and I come from two totally different points of view," Noah added. "Jon would have to empathize. I, myself, come from a different place, and I guess it would be the same for him on different issues as well. When it comes to Mike Huckabee commenting on leading Jewish people to the ovens, Jon would come at it from a very different place than I would because I’m more of an outsider into that world and he isn’t."

Trevor Noah.

Are there any specific changes coming to the broadcast? "In terms of the show, physically, we are obviously changing the set a tiny bit," Noah said. "We still want the show to be recognized as The Daily Show because that’s what it still is. In terms of content on the show, I guess we’re still dealing with the same issues. The issues are not really changing in America and in the world, so really it’s just a different angle that we are looking at things from, and it’s my angle, really, but the show still has its voice. It’s just that I’m at the helm taking things in a slightly different direction but still trying to get to the same end place."

A question was posed to Noah about whether or not he'd make FOX News as much of a consistent target/joke source as Stewart had. "The Daily Show was based on an emerging 24-hour news cycle," Noah replied. "That’s everything that it was. It was this big thing that came out, and that’s what inspired The Daily Show. Now you look at news and it’s changing. It’s no longer predicated around 24-hour news. There are so many different sources. Half of it is online now. Now you’ve got the Gawkers and the BuzzFeeds, and the way people are absorbing their news in sound bites and headlines and little click links has changed everything."

"So the biggest challenge - and it’s going to be an exciting one on the show - is how do we bring all of that together," Noah said. "Looking at it from through a bigger lens as opposed to just going after one source, which was historically Fox News."

With challenges and changes ahead, Noah is excited. But there's also understandable pressure. "I would say the biggest pressure for me is living up to the expectations I guess that Jon has of me," Noah said "Jon believes in me. Jon is somebody that for years we have been talking. I never dreamed that I would be sitting here on this chair talking to you now about hosting the show."